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lirst egg is laid. The male attends upon her, and seeks for prey, 
with which he flies round her, giving a sharp cry, and drops it a 
little distance from the nest. Tlie female then takes Aving, picks 
up the prey from the ground, and, alighting with it still further 
from the nest, makes her meal, Avhen she again settles on her eggs. 
[It Ava.s the attempted destruction of these birds which called 
forth the strong and well-merited censure of our President in liis 
last year’s address, as, if unmolested, these Harriers would still, as 
in former days, bo a marked and attractive feature during the 
summer months upon our larger broads.] 
July. 
Magpie. One was seen at Korthrepps on the 7th, attacking a 
young Pheasant about the size of a Thrusli. 
Grey Grow. 'J’wo seen at Scratby near the shore on the 15th. 
Waderib. On llreydon. Common Sandpiper, Grcenshank.s, and 
Dunlins, 18th; and si.\. Wimbrel on the 22nd; a little Stint on 
the 27th; a flock of twenty Wimbrel, two I’igmy Curlews and 
Common Sandpiper on the 29th, and on the 31st; six big Curlews, 
Ping Plovers, and Wimbrel. On the 8th, a young Sanderling ; 
9th, immature spotted Pedshanks, four out of six shot, four Green- 
shanks shot out of six, and two Wimbrels ; on the 11th, Knots, 
and a ^^’’ood Sandpiper, and Turnstone; 13th, a Green Sandpiper, 
and an immature Wood Sandpiper; on the 17th, two Spotted 
Pedshanks, dark birds, and one Peeve seen ; one Common Sand- 
piper on the 21st. 
Terns. On the 10th and 11th a young Black Tern on Broydon, 
and immature Common, Arctic, and Lesser Terns. 
Ducks. Several Garganey Teal shot at Panworth on the 1st, 
and three Pochards Avere killed on Breydon out of seven on the 
1 7th. Two adult and one A’oung Great Crested Grebes on the 18th. 
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August. 
^Migration. On the night of the 6th, at ten o’clock, heard Plover 
over the city, very dark at the time. At Cambridge the night 
before, I heard the same notes over the tOAvn. On the 8th, about 
ten p.m., after a heavy rain, Avith dark clouds about, heard mingled 
noises of birds passing over my garden. Plover and small Tringai 
apparently amongst them, and one CurleAV very noisy, going north- 
